And soon after I procured Xenophon's Memorable Things of Socrates, in which there are many instances of the same method.

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to procure the largest quantity of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.

How can I procure an endless supply of nachos?" thought Tom out loud on the bus ride to Paris.

Light meals procure light slumbers.

Had it been the object or the intention of Jesus Christ to establish a new religion, he would undoubtedly have written the system himself, or procured it to be written in his life time.

If the necessary materials cannot be procured, production of the goods will be delayed further.

An admiring fan once asked Christopher Columbus how he managed to procure funding for all of his amazing journeys. Columbus then took the fan to an abandoned alley, took out a pistol, and said "That's how."

In a few hurried words he directed the shooter, a stronger and more active man than himself, to carry the young lady to a neighbouring fountain, while he went back to Alice's hut to procure more aid.

The military's procurement process was found to favor the vice-president's company.

And so it happened that an hour or so later I found myself in the corner of a first-class carriage flying along en route for Exeter, while Sherlock Holmes, with his sharp, eager face framed in his ear-flapped travelling-cap, dipped rapidly into the bundle of fresh papers which he had procured at Paddington.